The Middle Path, One Day At A Time

Warrior Spirits

During his first two weeks back, my brother, the demolitions expert, plied me with photos of the carnage and mayhem wreaked by his platoon. Fifteen memory cards worth of bizarre and disturbing photos — half-naked soldiers dancing in the desert, a severed goat’s head in a noose, Marines dressed in traditional women’s clothing found following a house raid.

I wanted to hit him, banish him, to create a giant dent in his soul. But he wouldn’t care, wouldn’t budge. This is what the Marines have trained him to do — warp, destroy, and believe it is for good. …

Post navigation

May all sentient beings have equanimity, free from attachment, aggression and prejudice.
May they be happy, and have the causes of happiness.
May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May they never be separated from the happiness that is free from suffering.